The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye) novel Chapter 787

"I understand, I'll put this project off tomorrow."

Terrance nodded his head.

"Don't do this too flamboyantly and find an irrefutable excuse to reject the project so that you don't offend anyone as many affairs in the commercial world are intertwined as you know."

"I got it, thank you, Terrance."

Terrance waved his hand.

Later, Mango was stunned when she went to the living room after making tea as she saw Nathaniel and Terrance playing chess.

"Aren't you discussing the collaboration? Why are you playing chess now?"

"I didn't want your husband to get too exhausted so I used the business discussion as an excuse since Mateo can cook on his own."

Mango could barely stand Terrance's cheesiness.

"Terrance, Mateo will feel sad."

"I would rather have him sad than to see you get upset."

Mango burst into laughter after hearing what Terrance said.

"That's true! I shall let him be as I should care for my own at times."

Mango placed the tea on the table as she turned her head and looked outside before asking, "Where are the kids?"

"They're playing outside but I don't seem to hear them anymore, I'll go out and have a look."

"I'll go."

Mango stopped Terrance as she wanted to go out to take a look herself while Nathaniel pushed the chessboard away and stood up immediately at that instant.

"I'll go with you."

Terrance felt so frustrated at that point.

"Nathaniel, how could you push the chess all aside when we were still halfway through the game?"

"Come on, it's just a chess game and for entertainment...I'll count you as the winner, okay?"

Having said that, Nathaniel put his arms around Mango's shoulders and they walked out of the house.

Terrance was so angry as Nathaniel was clearly about to win yet he considered Terrance the winner... It didn't make sense!

However, Mango and Nathaniel were already no longer in the living room when Terrance came to his senses again.

"I can look for them alone and you should continue the game with Terrance."

"I'm really bad at playing chess and I'll soon expose my weaknesses if I continue the game, so thank you for saving me, my dear wife."

Mango burst into laughter after hearing Nathaniel's words.

What did he mean that his chess skill was not good?

Even someone who didn't know how to play chess like Mango could tell that Nathaniel was giving in to Terrance.

It must have been a difficult time for her husband.

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to play chess in the future as you aren't even in your seventies or eighties yet. Just address Terrance as uncle and he'll let you go."

Nathaniel felt really happy as Mango actually felt sorry for him.

"It's fine since he's my elder after all and even your uncle. You'll be happy only if your uncle is happy, isn't it?"

"You don't have to do this."

Mango felt that Nathaniel was aggrieved as he wasn't like this in the past and he had always been arrogant. Mango felt heartache now that Nathaniel became more sensible and down to earth."

"It's alright and I enjoyed it."

Nathaniel caressed Mango's head and he smiled gently.

The two of them were outside of the house but they couldn't find Wisdom and Rita.

"Where are the children? Did something happen to them?"

"That shouldn't be the case since the security guards are here... Don't worry as nothing will happen to them and perhaps they just went somewhere else to play. Let's have a look over there."

Nathaniel comforted Mango as he noticed how worried she seemed but a trace of nervousness flashed across his eyes too.

Mango rushed to the other side immediately.

"Rita, Wisdom! Where are you?"

Mango shouted out of anxiety.

At that moment, Wisdom immediately yelled after hearing Mango's voice, "Mommy, we're here! Rita fell into the pond."

"What?"

Mango felt extremely perturbed at that instant.

Nathaniel frowned and said to Mango, "You can stay here while I'll go over to have a look."

"How can I stay put? You can go ahead first and I'll be right there."

Mango knew that Nathaniel was worried that she might not able to keep up with his speed, so she spoke up without a second thought as her top priority was her kids.

Nathaniel nodded and ran to the pond after telling Mango to be careful.

Beside the pond, Wisdom was so anxious that he was crying and there was a boy's coat beside him.

"Wisdom, what's going on?"

"Daddy, Rita wanted to get that lotus flower but I don't know how to swim, so I told her that I'll get the security guard to take it for her and she promised to wait for me by the pond. However, she fell into the pond just a few seconds after I left."

Wisdom cried as he was really sad.

"Alright, alright, don't cry as it will be fine."

Nathaniel caressed Wisdom's head as he took off his jacket and was about to go into the pond to save Rita when he heard Wisdom say, "They're back! They're back!"

Then, Nathaniel saw a boy holding Rita while swimming across the pond and he was about eleven or twelve years old.

"Give me your hand."

Nathaniel's heart tightened.

The boy extended his hand to Nathaniel.

At that instant, Nathaniel pulled them out of the pond with his strength in an instant.

"Rita!"

Nathaniel took Rita from the boy directly and started giving her CPR.

On the other hand, Wisdom handed his coat to the boy.